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Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society
This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons i…
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The Economics of Water
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay …
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Words, Objects and Events in Economics
This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first vol…
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Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen
Dieses Open Access-Buch zeigt, dass Kompetenzentwicklung im Unternehmen so flexibel und innovativ sein kann, wie es die Arbeit oft schon ist. Der Ansatz „Agiles Lernen im Unternehmen“ wendet agile Methoden auf die betriebliche Weiterbildung an. Beschäftigte entwickeln neue Kompetenzen direkt im Arbeitsumfeld, die Herangehensweise ist dynamisch und kann im Verlauf des Lernens sich wandelnde…
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Die Business Judgement Rule
Diese Open-Access-Publikation vermittelt Personen aus Wirtschaft und Lehre durch pragmatische und fokussierte Darstellungsweise sowohl die Grundsystematik der Organhaftung als auch die in der Praxis äußerst relevante Problematik der Organhaftung bei unklaren Rechtslagen. Gleichzeitig wird durch Auslegung der Legalitätspflicht untersucht, ob der gegenwärtig in der Rechtsprechung verfolgte An…
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Theory and Practice of Sociosensitive and Socioactive Systems
Interactive adaptive systems increasingly become part of our everyday life. Which factors could shape this development and under which conditions will interactions with technical systems be deemed socially appropriate? The "FActors of Social Appropriateness" (FASA) Model presented in this Open Access-book provides a structured approach to our understanding of social appropriateness in human-tec…
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- 6 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
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- XV, 166
Die emotionale Erfahrung des Asyls
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation gibt Klaus Behnam Shad einen vertieften Einblick in die (Selbst-)Unterwerfung Geflüchteter und fokussiert ihre affektive Identitätsneukonstruktionen, d. h. die individuelle Auseinandersetzung mit dem affektiven Regime Asyl seitens der in ihm gefangenen Menschen. Auf Grundlage einer einjährigen Feldforschung und empirisch, in Form mehrphasiger explorativer In…
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Equity Policies in Global Higher Education
This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived backgrounds, socioeconomic inequalities persist in access to the most prestigious institutions and programmes. Privileged students benefit from…
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- 978-3-030-69690-0
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Cyber-Physical Systems: A Model-Based Approach
In this concise yet comprehensive Open Access textbook, future inventors are introduced to the key concepts of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Using modeling as a way to develop deeper understanding of the computational and physical components of these systems, one can express new designs in a way that facilitates their simulation, visualization, and analysis. Concepts are introduced in a cross-d…
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Foundations of Robotics
This open access book introduces key concepts in robotics in an easy to understand language using an engaging project-based approach. It covers contemporary topics in robotics, providing an accessible entry point to fundamentals in all the major domains. A section is dedicated to introducing programming concepts using Python, which has become a language of choice in robotics and AI. The book al…
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- 52 b/w illustrations, 174 illustrations in colour
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